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Facebook pays contractors to read your ‘encrypted’ WhatsApp messages, shares info with prosecutors – reports

Facebook Is Spying on 2 Billion WhatsApp Users

When Facebook acquired WhatsApp, it promised to respect the privacy of its users. That hasn’t been the case, and the firm now employs thousands of staff to read supposedly-encrypted chats.

Social media behemoth Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg promising to keep the stripped-down, ad-free messaging app “exactly the same.”

End-to-end encryption was introduced in 2016, with the app itself offering on-screen assurances to users that “No one outside of this chat” can read their communications, and Zuckerberg himself telling the US Senate in 2018 that “We don’t see any of the content in WhatsApp.”

Catalonia: New Wave of Police fines on Housing Defense groups for trying to stop evictions

Por David Cobo Publicado el 2 Sep, 2021 from Kaos en la Red shared with thanks translation TheFreeOnline

“We have received five fines today.” “We already have eighteen but we don’t know when it will stop.” “About twenty people have been fined for that eviction.” “At least forty more of us have been fined.”

These are phrases uttered by compas from four different housing groups in Barcelona to explain the outbreak of administrative sanctions they are receiving. They are not the only ones.

The fines refer back to the end of last year and since then many evictions have been opposed with the same tactic- blocking access to bailiffs until dragged away by police.. And you get identified by the police, in the Spanish State it’s illegal to be without your National Identity Card.. and possibly fined or charged months or years later.

According to TOT Barcelona, the administrative complaints imposed by the riot police of the Mossos d’Esquadra have hit just this month members of the Housing Network of Eixample, the Housing Union of the Raval, the Horta-Guinardó Housing Network, Sants Housing Group and the PAH of Barcelona.

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‘Modi gov’t anti-farmer’: Thousands rally against India farm laws

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Farmers promise to remain defiant against the government over controversial laws they say will destroy their livelihoods.

Indian farmers from various unions organised a huge gathering demanding a withdrawal of the agricultural laws introduced by the government a year ago. [Rajat Gupta/EPA]

6 Sep 2021

Hundreds of thousands of farmers have gathered in India’s most populous state, the biggest rally yet in a months-long series of demonstrations to press Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to repeal three new agricultural laws.

More than 500,000 farmers attended the rally in the city of Muzaffarnagar, according to local police. [Mayank Makhija/AP Photo]

Farmers have also called for a nationwide strike on September 27 to protest against the laws. Several rounds of negotiations between the government and ministers have failed to resolve the standoff.

More than 500,000 farmers attended Sunday’s rally in northern Uttar Pradesh state’s Muzaffarnagar district, according to local police.

Farmers and union leaders reaffirmed at the gathering that they would fight for their rights and continue their sit-in along major highways into New Delhi until the legislation is revoked. [Rajat Gupta/EPA]

Chanting “farmer-labourer, unity!”, the men and women wore yellow and green scarves, signifying harvest and mustard fields while waving national and farmer union flags.

Indian farmers and their supporters belonging to various farmers unions attend a farmers' protest in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh. [Rajat Gupta/EPA] — Indian farmers and their supporters belonging to various farmers unions attend a farmers’ protest in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh. [Rajat Gupta/EPA]

The demonstration in Uttar Pradesh, a predominantly agricultural state that is home to 240 million people, will breathe fresh life into the protest movement, said Rakesh Tikait, a prominent farmers’ leader.

Farmers say laws passed by parliament last year will hurt their livelihoods and leave them with scant bargaining power against big private retailers and food processors. [Mayank Makhija/AP Photo]

“We’ll intensify our protest by going to every single city and town of Uttar Pradesh to convey the message that Modi’s government is anti-farmer,” he added.

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‘They Should Be In Jail’: How The Guardian and New York Times ‘Set Up’ Julian Assange

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‘They Should Be In Jail’: How The Guardian and New York Times ‘Set Up’ Julian Assange https://sputniknews.com/20190812/assange-set-up-davis-guardian-new-york-times-1076533649.html?fbclid=IwAR3TASTVrvLJZqXmcYK_7xQ79FzCd0BMeClw9B2uD549_bUDatl3dU9v2gA10.09.2019)Award-winning journalist Mark Davis has exposed the extent to which The Guardian and New York Times betrayed Julian Assange in 2010, and have played a pivotal and consciously dishonest role in smearing him ever since.

Speaking at an event in Sydney, Australia 8th August, Davis recalled how he’d closely followed Assange’s activities in the first half of that year in order to make a series of programmes on the WikiLeaks founder’s life for Australia’s Special Broadcasting Service – he ended up with so much material he was able to compile a documentary, ‘Inside WikiLeaks’.

In particular, Davis was granted intimate insight into the release of the Afghan War Logs – 90,000 US military incident and intelligence reports compiled January 2004 – December 2009. Provided to WikiLeaks by Chelsea Manning, the files offered damning…

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